Word: trait
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...male, 24 female) in McLean Hospital, Waverly, Mass. "A more variegated collection of personalities," they wrote, "would be difficult to assemble: some were sociable, some seclusive, some stubborn, some easily influenced, some cyclothymic [manic-depressive], some schizoid [ingrown] , some intelligent, some dull and so on, ad infinitum; the only trait these people seemed to have in common was addiction to the excessive use of alcohol." Why they drank, the doctors found it impossible to discover...
...addition to writing such swing classics as "Honeysuckle Rose" and "Ain't Misbehavin'," Fats makes a specialty of taking hopelessly syrupy tunes that no other swing band would touch, and converting them into classics that keep the record collectors scrambling. Historic examples of this trait are "Sweet and Low" and "West Wind," with lyrics as only Fats can do them...
...husband, Mrs. Wilson found that Sargent had been talking to Henry Cabot Lodge, who had told him that the portrait "presented a great opportunity for the artist to serve his Party." Reason: Sargent's skill in finding the animal counterparts of human beings, "thus reveal some hidden beastly trait...
There are millions of good Germans, as everyone knows, and no one, certainly, wishes to hurt their feelings. But some of the best Germans share one trait of the worst-they only accept the word of Germans. The rest of the human race for them consists of four or five billion Jews, who cannot be expected to do justice to Germans. Only through the pressure of Germans will Germany be changed. This fact may teach a hard lesson, but it is one that will have to be learned. When Germans universally find that the universe detests their masters, and that...
...military training, children begin long marches at the age of 10. and 15-year-olds are expected to march 13∧ miles a day with an eleven-pound load. Result: an abnormal increase in the prevalence of fiat feet, a trait Nazis attribute to non-Aryans. Of youths conscripted in 1936. some 38% were found unfit for military service for this reason...